Enabling Creativity: A Poetry Workshop for Disabled Writers of All Experience Levels → Roanoke Arts Commission

Enabling Creativity: A Poetry Workshop for Disabled Writers of All Experience Levels

Michelle Acker | michelleackerwriter.com

In this 2-hour writing workshop, Roanoke poet Michelle Acker will guide participants through writing poetry based on their lived experiences of disability and chronic illness. Through a series of mini-lessons and writing exercises, participants will produce an original work of poetry to express how they relate to themselves and the people and spaces around them.

Participants: Three to 10
Ages: All
Value: $450.00
Requirements: Please provide a fully accessible indoor space.

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